Hong Kong. Since a launch in Hong Kong in 2013, the
Art Basel uncover has determined itself as a centre of Asia’s
general art scene. This year, 239 heading galleries will once
some-more arrangement works by over 4,000 artists during a Hong Kong Convention
and Exhibition Centre in a heart of a city from Mar 24 to 26. BMW has upheld Art Basel in Hong Kong
from a commencement as an central partner and is again providing the
VIP convey service.

The BMW Art Car combined by US artist Frank Stella will also be
presented during a muster centre in a BMW Lounge. As second
“rolling sculpture” in a collection, Stella’s BMW Art
Car celebrates a 40th anniversary this year, being designed
in 1976 – only a year after Alexander Calder had combined a series’
first model. Stella drew impulse from a record and
engineering behind a automobile and cloaked a physique in a pattern recalling
oversized graph paper. “My pattern is like a plans eliminated onto
a bodywork,” a artist explained. The 17 cars in a legendary
collection continue to intruigued both art and pattern enthusiasts as
good as automobile and record fans a universe over.

Together with Art Basel, BMW launched a new beginning to support
immature rising artists: a BMW Art Journey. The leader of a first
journey, Hong Kong formed artist Samson Young, will benefaction an
interactive multimedia travel entitled “So You Are Old by a Time You
Reach a Island” during a Art Basel show. As partial of this debate – adding
a new section to his BMW Art Journey plan “For Whom a Bell Tolls:
A Journey Into a Sonic History of Conflict” – a artist will lead
participants outward a muster centre and into a Wan Chai and
Admiralty districts of Hong Kong to try good famous and more
undiscovered tools of a city. Equipped with a unstable media player,
any member of a organisation will be means to knowledge sound recordings
from Young’s travels opposite eleven countries on 5 contents, as well
as newly constructed films and live performances.

This year once again, general experts will accumulate during a Art
Basel uncover to name a shortlist of 3 artists
from a Discoveries zone for a BMW Art Journey. Members of the
jury are Richard Armstrong, Director Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York; Claire Hsu, Director Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Matthias
Mühling, Director Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Bose
Krishnamachari, President Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; and Pauline
J. Yao, Curator, Visual Art M+, Hong Kong. The 3 artists who will
afterwards be invited to contention their proposals for a debate will be
presented to a media in a BMW Loungeat 4:00 PM on Mar 23, 2016. That evening, BMW will
horde an disdainful VIP cocktail accepting to applaud a announcement
of a BMW Art Journey shortlist.

Next to Art Basel in Hong Kong, BMW also supports a international
Art Basel shows in Basel and Miami Beach as a long-term partner.

For serve questions greatfully contact:

Dr. Thomas Girst

BMW Group Corporate and Governmental Affairs

Head of Cultural Engagement

Telephone: +49-89-382-24753

For serve information greatfully hit BMW Group Cultural Engagement:

Telephone: +49 151 601 51468

www.press.bmwgroup.com

E-Mail: presse@bmw.de

BMW’s Cultural Commitment

For some-more than 40 years now, a BMW Group has instituted and engaged
in over 100 informative cooperations worldwide. The association places the
categorical concentration of a long-term joining on complicated and contemporary art,
jazz and exemplary song as good as pattern and design. In 1972,
3 large-scale paintings were combined by a artist Gerhard Richter
privately for a corridor of a BMW Group’s Munich headquarters.
Since then, artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Olafur
Eliasson, Jeff Koons, Zubin Metha, Daniel Barenboim and Anna Netrebko
have co-operated with BMW. The association has also consecrated famous
architects such as Karl Schwanzer, Zaha Hadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au to
pattern critical corporate buildings and plants. In 2011, a BMW
Guggenheim Lab, a tellurian beginning of a Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, a Guggenheim Museum and a BMW Group distinguished its
universe premiere in New York. The BMW Group takes extensive creative
leisure in all a informative activities it is concerned in for postulated –
as this is only as essential for groundbreaking artistic work as it is
for vital innovations in a successful business.

Further information: www.bmwgroup.com/culture
and www.bmwgroup.com/culture/overview

The BMW Group

With a 3 brands BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, a BMW Group is the
world’s heading reward manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles
and also provides reward financial and mobility services. As a global
company, a BMW Group operates 30 prolongation and public facilities
in 14 countries and has a tellurian sales network in some-more than 140 countries.

In 2015, a BMW Group sole approximately 2.247 million cars and
scarcely 137,000 motorcycles worldwide. The distinction before taxation for the
financial year 2014 was approximately € 8.71 billion on revenues
amounting to € 80.40 billion. As of 31 Dec 2014, a BMW Group
had a workforce of 116,324 employees.

The success of a BMW Group has always been formed on long-term
meditative and obliged action. The association has therefore established
ecological and amicable sustainability via a value chain,
extensive product shortcoming and a transparent joining to
conserving resources as an constituent partial of a strategy.

Art Basel stages a world’s premier art shows for Modern and
contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong.
Defined by a horde city and region, any uncover is unique, that is
reflected in a participating galleries, artworks presented, and the
calm of together programming constructed in partnership with local
institutions for any edition. In further to desirous stands
featuring heading galleries from around a globe, any show’s
muster sectors spotlight a latest developments in a visual
arts, charity visitors new ideas and new inspiration. For further
information greatfully revisit artbasel.com